I have an IBM 3650 M3 Server that I just got to learn VMWARE. It has ESXI 6.0 on it. I have Vsphere 6 and Vcenter Server 6 in a VM on this server.
I recently added a 4 Port IBM NIC PCI-E 39Y6138 after the initial install. I enabled PCIE 1.0 on all the PCIE interfaces which is a workaround for this card apparently. I went in and enabled the interfaces in Vcenter which required a Reboot. This took the interlaces from unavailable to available(pending) in Vcenter. It said I needed to reboot, I thought this was strange since I had just rebooted to get them from Unavailable to available(pending), but did it just the same.
There is no change to the status and I really can't use them presently.
Any ideas what the next step is?